Google could make progress on this by buying twenty or so really good body fonts outright from a major font foundry, and setting them up for download on demand for Google Docs.
Or, they could go the way of Arial and just make up their own set of fonts that are close enough to the popular Microsoft ones. It would be kind of playing dirty, but who knows if Google's typeface creators could come up with some stuff that's better than what Microsoft has.
I'm not sure it's a matter of being incurious. These products have reached a certain critical mass, where a business analyst from Company A can easily integrate into Company B's workflow without too much training.
The good thing about monoculture is that you can pretty much take your knowledge and go anywhere, and likewise, as an employer, you can hire anyone and expect a certain competency in your systems on day one. There are a lot of downsides, but for a business, whose only interested in results and the speed of attaining those results, any downside to monoculture is largely marginalized.
First one has to ask why one "rather large" organization would even entrust it's confidential documents in the first place to another rather large organization
I think that in and of itself is sufficient reason to not use a cloud solution.
That's certainly a way to get rid of any potential terrorists. Instead of arresting them and burdening the court system, put out some incomplete information and let nature take its course. As a bonus, you get to do Darwin's work too.
Now, of course, once you start actually making weapons, that's quite a different story.
Ah, how far we've already slipped.
From an American viewpoint (because TFA is in Britain, which is a little different), it's not a crime to make chemical weapons. It's not a crime to possess explosives, or any other thing that potentially can go boom. It's a crime to use them, or intend to use them in a manner that will harm others. If improperly kept, it can be a violation of certain safety codes, but not a crime.
But nowadays, people automatically associate having explosive or chemicals (regardless what they might be or might be for) as indicative of criminal acts, and the burden of proof is suddenly on the possessor to prove he's not interested in killing people with them. That already is a gross erosion of our fundamental freedoms. Fortunately, at least in the states, there are still a few people able to recognize this difference. But it's most likely not going to be among those in a jury.
We're already halfway down that slippery slope, and it'll only be a matter of time before we get to a point where thoughtcrime becomes a ubiquitous reality.
Wikipedia is supposed to be a collection of information.
There, fixed that for you.
The "solid, sourced" part is a relatively recent invention, conceived only after the people who run Wikipedia started to take themselves too seriously.
Wikipedia, being a "Free Encyclopedia" that's supposedly editable by anyone, isn't what you or any select group of individuals think it is. It is what the users think it is. And no matter how hard you try to force the "solid, sourced" part onto the user base, it's just not going to happen unless the users agree. Quite frankly, from the majority of the readers and potential contributors, they don't. So the more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.
Their current solution, a redirect to the entry on xkcd, seems reasonable until the term gains further notability and there's something to actually write about in the entry.
The current solution, which should've been what happened in the first place, only came about because of the huge backlash at the page being deleted. Twice
Said admin should've been demoted or otherwise chastised for abuse of power, but no such thing has happened. When admins can do whatever they want with no negative consequence regardless of action, then you know there's an institutional problem present. And when you see that happen in real life, it's quite possibly time to jump ship.
What I said wasn't exactly meant to be funny, but OK.
I just think it's genius how Google can cater to the layman while still remaining true to their geeky, technical, dangerous-experiment-in-the-basement heart. If that idea amuses people, who am I to complain.
The ad doesn't just make Chrome look fast; it makes science and engineering look incredibly cool.
Besides which, Google's main source of revenue is advertisement. These are all side projects. They're meant to cause a stir in the relevant software industry, drum up some good PR, but the truth is, Google can sit on them for years and wait for them to mature into competitive products.
I suspect some of these projects are there just provide incentive for the competition to continue to advance and progress. If Google's version catches on, it's great, but it doesn't have to. And sometime, somewhere down the line, somebody is going to find a use for it beyond its original scope, and that's when it'll make money. It's like how they're slowly positioning Gmail (or at least its internals) to become Google's competitor to Outlook.
To be fair, AT&T has incredible 2G coverage. You might have trouble making calls in population centers, but they do cover as much of the remote and rural as Verizon.
It's their 3G that's sorely lacking, which for smartphones is a problem, but not for phones under ordinary data-less plans.
Unless your workforce continued to increase, social security was never sustainable anyway. It was only possible over the past 40 years because of the baby boomers. Without another similar increase in workers, and another one every 40 years, it'd be impossible for the taxes collected to keep up with the people retiring, especially as they're also living longer.
What are you smoking, because that's gotta be some good stuff you got there. VA hospitals are among the worst medical facilities out there bar none.
Last I recall, there was a special report about a VA hospital that had mold growing on the walls of every room. None of the hospital staff cared to do anything about it, despite the health hazard that the spores posed.
And we would still be far and away the best-defended nation.
We're not the best defended nation because of our military spending by a long shot. We're the best defended nation because there's nobody close enough to bother us; Mexicans all want to be US citizens, and Canadians are too busy trying to keep warm.
All defense spending does is assist our outposts in foreign lands and their territories. It's a product of the cold war mentality, that if a country is not with us, they're with the Soviets. Defense spending helps us maintain a grip on those countries "with" us by giving us a big stick to wave a them whenever they get out of line. Heck, we can even give them a big stick to wave too if they ask nicely and we like them enough.
We could cut our defense budget to 0, and still be the best defended nation in the world. The only catch is that we'd also have to pull out of Europe, the Middle East, and Asia and leave those countries to their own devices. Of course, nobody wants that--not the leaders of the other countries, and not the leaders of this country--so it'll never happen.
Creationist Textbook Stickers Declared Unconstitutional by CowboyNeal Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London by Zonk Strike on Iraq by CmdrTaco Saddam Hussein Arrested by CmdrTaco
Looks like after CowboyNeal's ruling, Zonk decided to take matters into his own hands. So they sent CmdrTaco to Iraq to capture Zonk, but caught Saddam Hussein instead.
Greece is going the high road because their debt is in Euros. If they go to their own currency, it won't solve the debt problem, because their currency will devalue as they flood the market.
Hats off to you, sir, for being able to explain this most complicated and confusing financial mess with such simple and easy to understand words. I honestly think this should be reprinted in the WSJ, as many savvy investors have no idea what happened the past two years, and you've just about summed it up as clearly and as concisely as I've ever seen or heard.
Talking on heads on the radio and TV be damned! The true masters are all here.
It seems like it would be better to compare against a kindle or some other e-reader than a netbook.
The iPad has advantages and disadvantages over the netbook. It has vibrant color, but that comes with glare. In particular, I think once color e-ink screens become ubiquitous, the iPad will lose most of its advantages.
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Google could make progress on this by buying twenty or so really good body fonts outright from a major font foundry, and setting them up for download on demand for Google Docs.
Or, they could go the way of Arial and just make up their own set of fonts that are close enough to the popular Microsoft ones. It would be kind of playing dirty, but who knows if Google's typeface creators could come up with some stuff that's better than what Microsoft has.
I'm not sure it's a matter of being incurious. These products have reached a certain critical mass, where a business analyst from Company A can easily integrate into Company B's workflow without too much training.
The good thing about monoculture is that you can pretty much take your knowledge and go anywhere, and likewise, as an employer, you can hire anyone and expect a certain competency in your systems on day one. There are a lot of downsides, but for a business, whose only interested in results and the speed of attaining those results, any downside to monoculture is largely marginalized.
First one has to ask why one "rather large" organization would even entrust it's confidential documents in the first place to another rather large organization
I think that in and of itself is sufficient reason to not use a cloud solution.
That's certainly a way to get rid of any potential terrorists. Instead of arresting them and burdening the court system, put out some incomplete information and let nature take its course. As a bonus, you get to do Darwin's work too.
Now, of course, once you start actually making weapons, that's quite a different story.
Ah, how far we've already slipped.
From an American viewpoint (because TFA is in Britain, which is a little different), it's not a crime to make chemical weapons. It's not a crime to possess explosives, or any other thing that potentially can go boom. It's a crime to use them, or intend to use them in a manner that will harm others. If improperly kept, it can be a violation of certain safety codes, but not a crime.
But nowadays, people automatically associate having explosive or chemicals (regardless what they might be or might be for) as indicative of criminal acts, and the burden of proof is suddenly on the possessor to prove he's not interested in killing people with them. That already is a gross erosion of our fundamental freedoms. Fortunately, at least in the states, there are still a few people able to recognize this difference. But it's most likely not going to be among those in a jury.
We're already halfway down that slippery slope, and it'll only be a matter of time before we get to a point where thoughtcrime becomes a ubiquitous reality.
Wikipedia is supposed to be a collection of information.
There, fixed that for you.
The "solid, sourced" part is a relatively recent invention, conceived only after the people who run Wikipedia started to take themselves too seriously.
Wikipedia, being a "Free Encyclopedia" that's supposedly editable by anyone, isn't what you or any select group of individuals think it is. It is what the users think it is. And no matter how hard you try to force the "solid, sourced" part onto the user base, it's just not going to happen unless the users agree. Quite frankly, from the majority of the readers and potential contributors, they don't. So the more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.
Their current solution, a redirect to the entry on xkcd, seems reasonable until the term gains further notability and there's something to actually write about in the entry.
The current solution, which should've been what happened in the first place, only came about because of the huge backlash at the page being deleted. Twice
Said admin should've been demoted or otherwise chastised for abuse of power, but no such thing has happened. When admins can do whatever they want with no negative consequence regardless of action, then you know there's an institutional problem present. And when you see that happen in real life, it's quite possibly time to jump ship.
No, but you might get a response if you flipped the iPod touch.
Does Wikipedia -lose- anything if it accepts an article that is a word coined by xkcd?
Respectability.
Now, whether they had any in the first place is a completely separate argument.
What I said wasn't exactly meant to be funny, but OK.
I just think it's genius how Google can cater to the layman while still remaining true to their geeky, technical, dangerous-experiment-in-the-basement heart. If that idea amuses people, who am I to complain.
The ad doesn't just make Chrome look fast; it makes science and engineering look incredibly cool.
Besides which, Google's main source of revenue is advertisement. These are all side projects. They're meant to cause a stir in the relevant software industry, drum up some good PR, but the truth is, Google can sit on them for years and wait for them to mature into competitive products.
I suspect some of these projects are there just provide incentive for the competition to continue to advance and progress. If Google's version catches on, it's great, but it doesn't have to. And sometime, somewhere down the line, somebody is going to find a use for it beyond its original scope, and that's when it'll make money. It's like how they're slowly positioning Gmail (or at least its internals) to become Google's competitor to Outlook.
I have one word: infidelity.
You can't trust a verbal agreement. That's why people who have stuff to lose get prenuptials.
To be fair, AT&T has incredible 2G coverage. You might have trouble making calls in population centers, but they do cover as much of the remote and rural as Verizon.
It's their 3G that's sorely lacking, which for smartphones is a problem, but not for phones under ordinary data-less plans.
Unless your workforce continued to increase, social security was never sustainable anyway. It was only possible over the past 40 years because of the baby boomers. Without another similar increase in workers, and another one every 40 years, it'd be impossible for the taxes collected to keep up with the people retiring, especially as they're also living longer.
VA hospitals are a pretty good system
What are you smoking, because that's gotta be some good stuff you got there. VA hospitals are among the worst medical facilities out there bar none.
Last I recall, there was a special report about a VA hospital that had mold growing on the walls of every room. None of the hospital staff cared to do anything about it, despite the health hazard that the spores posed.
And we would still be far and away the best-defended nation.
We're not the best defended nation because of our military spending by a long shot. We're the best defended nation because there's nobody close enough to bother us; Mexicans all want to be US citizens, and Canadians are too busy trying to keep warm.
All defense spending does is assist our outposts in foreign lands and their territories. It's a product of the cold war mentality, that if a country is not with us, they're with the Soviets. Defense spending helps us maintain a grip on those countries "with" us by giving us a big stick to wave a them whenever they get out of line. Heck, we can even give them a big stick to wave too if they ask nicely and we like them enough.
We could cut our defense budget to 0, and still be the best defended nation in the world. The only catch is that we'd also have to pull out of Europe, the Middle East, and Asia and leave those countries to their own devices. Of course, nobody wants that--not the leaders of the other countries, and not the leaders of this country--so it'll never happen.
Hear here!
now there's a trickle of blood leading out of my nose
So you tried, couldn't do it, and went to watch something more instantly gratifying like porn?
Creationist Textbook Stickers Declared Unconstitutional by CowboyNeal
Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London by Zonk
Strike on Iraq by CmdrTaco
Saddam Hussein Arrested by CmdrTaco
Looks like after CowboyNeal's ruling, Zonk decided to take matters into his own hands. So they sent CmdrTaco to Iraq to capture Zonk, but caught Saddam Hussein instead.
I think anybody can appreciate the explosions in the potato and lightning tests. After all, Michael Bay is very popular for a reason.
Geeks likely understand it at a different level, but it's still entertaining for the layman.
They probably did it to keep us ignorant of what lies beyond this solar system.
The man (or alien) is keeping the whole population of this planet down!
Key it in a second time. If somebody meant to sell 1 million, it's unlikely (but possible) that they'd key in 1 billion twice.
Greece is going the high road because their debt is in Euros. If they go to their own currency, it won't solve the debt problem, because their currency will devalue as they flood the market.
Hats off to you, sir, for being able to explain this most complicated and confusing financial mess with such simple and easy to understand words. I honestly think this should be reprinted in the WSJ, as many savvy investors have no idea what happened the past two years, and you've just about summed it up as clearly and as concisely as I've ever seen or heard.
Talking on heads on the radio and TV be damned! The true masters are all here.
An in-depth analysis of what brand of adhesive tape is best to mend your glasses.
Duct tape. Duh! Hand over your geek card before you leave please.
It seems like it would be better to compare against a kindle or some other e-reader than a netbook.
The iPad has advantages and disadvantages over the netbook. It has vibrant color, but that comes with glare. In particular, I think once color e-ink screens become ubiquitous, the iPad will lose most of its advantages.